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God should have just pulled the problem out with its roots, knowing Satan is evil incarnate and going to cause nothing but trouble.

Satan knows God exists, unlike us, and he's had a personal conversation with God, unlike us. What we would do to get some answers from God.

This is an interesting thread, why not pray for Satan? Can God forgive him? Will God accept our prayers for Satan?

Gets me thinking (of more questions, of course).

Actually to believe God and Satan are against each other is dualism. Dualism and dualist ideas can be traced in the Bible when they first appeared, after the captivity, the Jews learned it from Zoroastrianism aka Persian dualism. http://www.jewishvir...06_0_05429.html

Christians (not all) are big on dualism. There is also a strong sense of evil and a weak one. A Puritan, in his diary, we can see that he did not believe good and evil are opposites but are from God and his day to to day concerns were mundane items, not hellfire or Satan running amok in the village or along the hedges. http://www.alanmacfa.../FILES/evil.htm

Most Jews today believe Satan, the Adversary, is always under God's control, there will be no final showdown as in Revelation, there will be no hell, which itself is at least three different things, the English Bible translates all three (Sheol, Gehenna, Hades) terms as all Hell but each one means a different thing, one just means being under the ground, no fire, nothing.

Dualism and that God is an old man in the sky seem very simplistic, Sunday school versions of Christianity.

How?

And who told you that?

I do not see the worlds disasters slowing or crime figures going down, so what has he "not" done to show that he is repenting?

To believe Satan is behind all of man's woes (disasters/crimes) is another simplistic belief many hold.

Many Jews believe God is behind all disasters. Some medieval Christians believed the Devil was and those in league and compact with Satan who were behind crop failures (weather witches which do not appear at all in the Bible but is an invention of the Middle Ages).

Others believe man is behind his own condition and if there is a Satan that It stands in the corner laughing when we argue because It had nothing whatsoever to do with our quarrels or miseries.

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You got heaps of questions. Do you really want to keep pealing away at the layers of the onion because it will mean a lot of tears.. Wisdoms and Knowledge is one thing but without Love there nothing and way to dangerous!

My question is if you acquired the full understanding what would you do with it? Would you keep it to yourself? Would try share just parts of it? How would you stay humble? What if your thoughts and words alone could curse entire nations and see hundreds if not thousands of people die? What if you could walk around and say "see this temple, not one stone will not be overturned", or think, because these people rejected me or members of my family were killed a tsunami will smash this nation, or this army because they desire to kill the ones i love i will drown the whole lot including there horses, would you in part now hate yourself sometimes and feel remorseful that you have that authoritative power to smite entire nations if you wish by near thought? . What if any door you opened could be and any door you locked would be..such power is dangerous yet has been given before and given to ones who made mistakes, such as striking a rock twice, refusing to cut the doves in your offerings because you like doves, focusing on saving a certain people out of love for your own kind when other races and groups were already accepting you..what if the mistakes you make we're so great and caused great suffering yet could only be seen by heaven. Do you know all the angels requested that the earth be completely destroyed after the Fall a new start given because they knew how painful this entire restoration process was going to be.the flood of Noah being a small example of what was necessary, .that everything good sent into the earth even after that flood would stll be destroyed for a very long time, and many of our best Knights were going to suffer incredibly and be killed on that restoration battlefield to pay for these wicked humans even until this day.what if you were one of these? Would you still want to be knowing how alone your life would be? What if you always had a choice to go back after a taste of such a horrible life sacrificing all, giving your heart and everything for people who openly accuse you, despise you..how many would joyfully carry such a cross by your own free will out of Love.

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You got heaps of questions. Do you really want to keep pealing away at the layers of the onion because it will mean a lot of tears.. Wisdoms and Knowledge is one thing but without Love there nothing and way to dangerous!

My question is if you acquired the full understanding what would you do with it? Would you keep it to yourself? Would try share just parts of it? How would you stay humble? What if your thoughts and words alone could curse entire nations and see hundreds if not thousands of people die? What if you could walk around and say "see this temple, not one stone will not be overturned", or think, because these people rejected me or members of my family were killed a tsunami will smash this nation, or this army because they desire to kill the ones i love i will drown the whole lot including there horses, would you in part now hate yourself sometimes and feel remorseful that you have that authoritative power to smite entire nations if you wish by near thought? . What if any door you opened could be and any door you locked would be..such power is dangerous yet has been given before and given to ones who made mistakes, such as striking a rock twice, refusing to cut the doves in your offerings because you like doves, focusing on saving a certain people out of love for your own kind when other races and groups were already accepting you..what if the mistakes you make we're so great and caused great suffering yet could only be seen by heaven. Do you know all the angels requested that the earth be completely destroyed after the Fall a new start given because they knew how painful this entire restoration process was going to be.the flood of Noah being a small example of what was necessary, .that everything good sent into the earth even after that flood would still be destroyed for a very long time, and many of our best Knights were going to suffer incredibly and be killed on that restoration battlefield to pay for these wicked humans even until this day.what if you were one of these? Would you still want to be knowing how alone your life would be? What if you always had a choice to go back after a taste of such a horrible life sacrificing all, giving your heart and everything for people who openly accuse you, despise you..how many would joyfully carry such a cross by your own free will out of Love.

Hi,

But how do you know all this? I honestly wish to know where are you receiving this information? I'm not going to ridicule you and will be respectful but please enlighten me

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You got heaps of questions. Do you really want to keep pealing away at the layers of the onion because it will mean a lot of tears.. Wisdoms and Knowledge is one thing but without Love there nothing and way to dangerous!

My question is if you acquired the full understanding what would you do with it? Would you keep it to yourself? Would try share just parts of it? How would you stay humble? What if your thoughts and words alone could curse entire nations and see hundreds if not thousands of people die? What if you could walk around and say "see this temple, not one stone will not be overturned", or think, because these people rejected me or members of my family were killed a tsunami will smash this nation, or this army because they desire to kill the ones i love i will drown the whole lot including there horses, would you in part now hate yourself sometimes and feel remorseful that you have that authoritative power to smite entire nations if you wish by near thought? . What if any door you opened could be and any door you locked would be..such power is dangerous yet has been given before and given to ones who made mistakes, such as striking a rock twice, refusing to cut the doves in your offerings because you like doves, focusing on saving a certain people out of love for your own kind when other races and groups were already accepting you..what if the mistakes you make we're so great and caused great suffering yet could only be seen by heaven. Do you know all the angels requested that the earth be completely destroyed after the Fall a new start given because they knew how painful this entire restoration process was going to be.the flood of Noah being a small example of what was necessary, .that everything good sent into the earth even after that flood would stll be destroyed for a very long time, and many of our best Knights were going to suffer incredibly and be killed on that restoration battlefield to pay for these wicked humans even until this day.what if you were one of these? Would you still want to be knowing how alone your life would be? What if you always had a choice to go back after a taste of such a horrible life sacrificing all, giving your heart and everything for people who openly accuse you, despise you..how many would joyfully carry such a cross by your own free will out of Love.

No one would be willing to pay that price but God himself.

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In the beginning there was darkness and void, then God said "let there be light, and God 'SAW' the light and it was good."

That's a good question. I was using dark and light as a metaphor for good/divine and evil(darkness and void are not evil). I also mentioned a fish and I don't think Satan is a fish or God is the sun. I do think if Satan saw God again he would melt like wax because his composition is not what it used to be. He is not going to "evolve" back to what he was after choosing its opposite [my opinions do not necessarily reflect the bible].

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That's a good question. I was using dark and light as a metaphor for good/divine and evil(darkness and void are not evil). I also mentioned a fish and I don't think Satan is a fish or God is the sun. I do think if Satan saw God again he would melt like wax because his composition is not what it used to be. He is not going to "evolve" back to what he was after choosing its opposite [my opinions do not necessarily reflect the bible].

Do you believe God is "A" being that is 'separate' from you?

Can an omnipresent (all-present / everywhere) being be 'separate' from anything?

God is made of pure energy and created all from himself. God gave breathe of life (spirit) to EVERYONE - EVERYONE is a part of God.

Hell is an ILLUSION of separation from God, which is why Adam and Eve being tricked by The Serpent to eat "The Forbidden Fruit of Kowledge of Good and Evil" caused them to be separate from God and kicked out of Eden.

It was their so-called "knowledge of Good and Evil" - their judgments that blocked them from realizing being one with God and in their perfect paradise Eden.

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...ones who made mistakes, such as striking a rock twice, refusing to cut the doves in your offerings because you like doves, focusing on saving a certain people out of love for your own kind when other races and groups were already accepting you...

Refusing to cut doves because you like doves is a mistake? no that's more like compassion and makes me think of god not accepting the vegetarian sacrifice which led to the murder of a human. Moses was extremely bloodthirsty as well... Those "certain people" would not even accept God and traded Him for a king just to continue the slaughter, and you say they are his own kind while others know Him far better than that. Excuses, excuses and far worse mistakes.

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The "nothingness" or "void" most refer to is "empty space (no heat, light, matter, etc.)".

But even empty-space is still "something" in it's own right.

Emptinesss is Form, and Form is Emptiness.

Did you know 99% of all atoms is empty space?

God is the everywhere.

I don't know about "nothingness" but there is nothing in the void, although something could fall through it and then something would be in it temporarily; the space in which the void was would still be there to become void again. The (religious) theory is that in order for for something to exist God had to draw Himself away to create the space for something/everything/matter. That space is the void, and then you have creation. You can think of it as a gigantic black wall/container surrounding hell in another dimension or anti-matter but either way it is still a factor.

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There is a play written (I can't remember its name or how to google it) wherein in our final judgement before god, the devil is our advocate, our defense lawyer. It makes sense in a way. Maybe we shouldn't be too harsh on the devil. we may need him one day.

God and the devil need each other, as well. Without the conflict between good and evil neither one would have much to do. Without the other, I'm sure either one would become bored with the whole thing and go off somewhere and play golf for the rest of eternity or something.